NoPast wrote:
Hi, I'm Martina from Italy, Nice to meet you

I'm doing an academic research for University of Milano-Bicocca(Department of psychology) about Political orientation and "neuro-difference"
I need your help
Please:
-Answer sincerely and honestly
-Answer only if you are autistic/asperger
thank you
I have doubts that this will be an unbiased survey. You'll get overrepresentation of strong ideologies, the sort that will tend to frequent political forums. A major problem will be that forums develop cultures over time, and so the culture of this forum will likely provide a confounding variable(and this is a problem because cultures can be prone to self-reinforcement and path dependency to some degree, and I don't say this with any intent on belittling PPR).
Note: None of these is to say this won't advance knowledge, or that better methods are easily implemented, and you may be aware of any concern of this nature, I just.... wanted to express some concerns on the issue. I would imagine that if you could find a way to randomly sample a geographic AS population and compare their responses to the background population, this would account for some of the problems better, but that's probably rather expensive and it can be difficult to find AS people.
..... In short, I don't know the point of what I am saying or why I am saying it. But, whatever...